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...first shock was felt in Topeka, the State Capital. A national bank examiner questioned the bona fides of some municipal bonds held by the National Bank of Topeka. The U. S. District Attorney got busy, requested permission of State Treasurer Tom Boyd to check them against bonds in the State vaults. The Treasurer refused. The District Attorney went to Governor Alfred M. Landon, got access to the vaults. In 40 minutes Federal investigators found $329,000 of forged bonds held as security for deposits of State funds in Kansas banks-found them lying in the vault not more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Forgery De Luxe | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...place of clean athletics combined with sound scholastic standards." The Big C man will be paid a salary. The Big C asks friends to help. Funds will be audited, kept out of the hands of athletes. Needy men may be helped to get jobs, "but only bona fide jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big C | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...Progress means business for any one in Chicago it means business for hotelmen. Since the Fair opened last month demand for rooms has jumped 30% to 40%. Most of the pick up has been due to conventions, of which Chicago expects 1,000 before the Fair is over.* Bona fide Fairgoers have not turned up in large numbers as yet and hotels have been unable even to guess at what volume of business will develop through the summer. Rates in higher-priced hotels are generally down 25% to 35% from last year (and 1929). Low-priced hotels have not reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Hotels | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Henceforth John Doctor may prescribe as much liquor as he pleases for any patient he pleases. But the patient must be bona fide. Otherwise sprightly Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, may arrest John Doctor, and stern Mr. Cummings, the Attorney General, may throw him into jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whiskey Prescriptions | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

While the man enrolled in the Graduate School wears a contented $100 smile as he seats himself in a Business School course in Marketing beside a bona fide $150 student of Business Administration, the same is true of the $300 tuitioned, $75 per course men enrolled in the Graduate School of Education, who take two courses, or half of their work, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The interesting thing, moreover, is that if at some time later one of the students in the School of Education wishes to transfer to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LEHMAN SQUEEZER | 11/30/1932 | See Source »

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